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From: hartnegg@sun1.ruf.uni-freiburg.de (Klaus Hartnegg)
Subject: Re: Legality of distributing Borland's BGI files
Message-ID: <1991Apr18.174146.27146@sun1.ruf.uni-freiburg.de>
Organization: Rechenzentrum der Universitaet Freiburg, Deutschland
References: <500@ceco.ceco.com> <6362@videovax.tv.tek.com>
Date: Thu, 18 Apr 91 17:41:46 GMT
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dougs@videovax.tv.tek.com (Doug Stevens) writes:

>In article <500@ceco.ceco.com>, sung@ceco.ceco.com (Sung Han) writes:
>> 
>> If I write a program that uses Borland's graphics BGI interface, and decide to
>> distribute it, can I also ship out the corresponding runtime BGI file (e.g.,
>> the 'egavga.bgi' file)? 

>I formally asked Borland this question when TC 1.5 came out, and the answer
>was a definite NO. 

Read the licence agreement of either Turbo Pascal 5, 5.5 or 6.0.
The answer is a definite YES as long as your program contains any
copyright notice.
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